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bottoms the house

bottoms the house is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bottom the house.

Meaning of bottom the house

Verb

bottom the house (third-person singular simple present bottoms the house, present participle bottoming the house, simple past and past participle bottomed the house)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To clean a house from top to bottom; to clean a house extremely thoroughly.
    • The half-length lace curtains keep out most of what little sun there is, but they establish your privacy: the window-ledges and doorsteps scrubbed and yellowed with scouring-stone further establish that you are a 'decent' family, that you believe in 'bottoming' the house each week.1957, Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, →ISBN

Questions about bottoms the house

What is bottoms the house the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bottoms the house is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bottom the house.

Words near bottoms the house in the dictionary

  1. bottoms
  2. bottoms of the hour
  3. bottoms of the hours
  4. bottoms on
  5. bottoms out
  6. bottoms the house
  7. bottoms up
  8. bottoms up squat
  9. bottoms up squats
  10. bottomset bed
  11. bottomspace

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